# Does the new LambdaMOO core support Web?

Jay Carlson (nop@nop.com)
Fri, 12 Apr 1996 17:48:19 PDT

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    Gustavo wrote:
    > Rog wrote:

    >> Hacking the server or doing anything that depends on DB file format
    >> (which is only sparsely documented and likely to change) is a less
    >> good idea.

    > Allow me to disagree. From our experience, the simplest method for logging
    > is to fileappend() using FUP. Simple, quick, no scale-up problems, doesn't
    > change the size of the database, has many other advantages.

    An even simpler method is to do your logging with server_log(), and
    just pull your messages out of the log with cut or sed or whatever.

    > Sorry, but the mentality of 'keep the server unmodified or die' is
    > obviously wrong. Arguably MCP was 'bad', until the moment when Pavel
    > added it to the server, and then it became kosher. Nah.

    I assume you mean the out of band handling required for inbound
    MCP....anyway, it's still a cost/benefit analysis between
    incompatibility and security and convenience and etc.

    With recent fixes to the db parser, running on a server with new
    builtins isn't quite as catastrophic to compatibility as it used to
    be.  That's only one factor, though.

    > Sorry if anyone feels this to be a flame or flame-bait, it is not
    > intended to be so. Bottom line - some applications benefit a lot
    > from certain server modifications. This is one of them.

    ...depending on the other factors you face.

    Jay Carlson
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